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Each Sunday, ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr. and Sports Illustrated's Jacob Feldman send out an email newsletter called “The Sunday Long Read.” With input from readers, they select the week’s best in longform journalism from a broad range of subjects, including sports.

ESPN has chosen a new editor to helm Grantland in the absence of founding editor Bill Simmons.

Sports journalist Chris Connelly, who regularly talked movies with Simmons and staff writer Wesley Morris, will take over editorship of the site on an interim basis, according to a press release published Wednesday by ESPN.

Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight will relaunch March 17, ESPN President John Skipper announced Saturday at South by Southwest as he introduced Silver and Grantland's Bill Simmons for a panel on personal media brands.

News! Based on @NateSilver538's calculations, there's a 90.617854% chance we’re relaunching FiveThirtyEight on March 17.